In Kislovodsk, activists were arrested and detained in the city administration building

The Kislovodsk City Court of the Stavropol Territory arrested more than 10 activists who were detained in the city administration. OVD-Info about this . told Elena Pavlova, a representative of the Stavropol public organization “Dwelling”,

According to her, protocols were drawn up against the detainees under Articles 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (disobedience to the demands of police officers) and 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the procedure for holding a public event). They were arrested for periods ranging from 7 to 15 days. Pavlova was able to name the names of only two detainees - the leaders of the regional branches of the trade union "Pravsoyuz Caucasus" Davud Adakhov and Maxim Shipilov.

As Pavlova said , on August 9, about 60 activists of the “Pravsoyuz Caucasus” came by appointment to an appointment at the administration of Kislovodsk. According to Pavlova, activists go to municipalities “demanding to eliminate shortcomings, including in legal documents.”

The website of the Kislovodsk administration says that activists “destabilized” the work of the institution and tried to organize an unauthorized rally.

“Considering themselves to be the only legal successors of the former USSR, denying the current laws of the Russian Federation, the rowdies came up with slogans about the illegitimacy of existing institutions of state power, the lack of powers of local governments and federal structures, including the judicial system,” the administration reports.

The police arrived at the scene and began detaining the activists. According to the administration, activists “used physical violence” against police officers. Pavlova denies this information. She added to Ekho Moskvy that in the end, a total of 20 people were taken to the police department. According to her, among the detainees were women with children and people with disabilities. One person was hospitalized by police.

The group “Pravsoyuz Caucasus”, which was created on August 6, 2018, has less than 400 people. The activists also have channel a YouTube , created in June this year, which has more than five thousand subscribers. Activists call their subscribers “citizens of the Soviet Union,” consider the collapse of the USSR illegal, and the current Russian laws as illegitimate.